{"id":804921,"date":"2026-05-18T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804921\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:14:14","slug":"best-sports-business-cities-no-49-fort-worth-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804921\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Sports Business Cities: No. 49 Fort Worth, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The city known historically for its twice-daily longhorn cattle drives through town is home to the Professional Bull Riders, which moved there in 2024. Dickies Arena, Pollstar Magazine\u2019s 2025 Venue of the Year in tickets sold among venues with a seating capacity of 10,001-15,000, has become the de facto home of the NCAA Women\u2019s Gymnastics Championships through at least 2028. <\/p>\n<p>Previous Rankings<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \"><b>2023:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2023\/03\/20\/In-Depth\/best-sports-business-cities-dallas\/\">#1<\/a> (as part of the Dallas listing)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \"><b>2024 Event Hosting:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-fort-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/03\/18\/bsbc-fort-worth\/\">#1<\/a> (among cities without a big league team)<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \"><b>2025 Soccer:<\/b> Not ranked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city known historically for its twice-daily longhorn cattle drives through town is home to the Professional Bull&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":804922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,327667,101777,137333,7371,7372,1317,55422,4281,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-804921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-best-sports-business-cities","tag-data-and-insights","tag-dickies","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-ncaa","tag-pbr","tag-print","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116595292147260818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}